Adding Insult to Injury
Having lived through 9/11 in D.C., I don't really believe it's possible to stop terrorist acts. The best you can do is get good plans in place to deal with the aftermath.
The inevitability of terrorist acts seems especially obvious when you look at our ports. The photo above is of the Port of Long Beach in CA, which isn't one that the United Arab Emerates (UAE) is about to take over. Or rather isn't one that a company bought by the UAE is about to take over. I couldn't find a photo of those in the short time it took me to lose my patience with internet research. But this gives you a sense of the absolute SIZE of our ports. The number of palettes of shipments that come in every day. In the best of situations, we're currently only screening 4 percent of cargo, so we're on borrowed time as it is.
However, I still think this is incredibly dumb. Did we think when we elected Bush that we'd be giving so many Arab governments the keys to our house? That he'd be tiptoeing through the tulips hand-in-hand with guys in burkhas? They tried to do this deal in secret so we wouldn't raise a stink. I hereby raise said stink.
Two of the 9/11 highjackers were from the UAE and money to fund it was laundered through the country. Is there any terrorist in the world who isn't ecstatic at this news? Meanwhile, we're supposed to sit by and trust Dubya and Elmer Fudd.
If the Dems can't get some mileage off this, the cause is beyond hope.
posted by dcnative @ 9:07 PM
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